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Nassim Taleb talks a lot about this. How extremists are using free speech to undermine democracy and turn the West into an authoritarian regime. "The Jihadi n

Nassim Taleb talks a lot about this. How extremists are using free speech to undermine democracy and turn the West into an authoritarian regime. "The Jihadi next door" is a good documentary exemplifying this, how ISIS supporters in UK are using UK's freedom of expression to recruit people for ISIS while openly stating in public in front of the police "the ISIS flag will be flown over 10 Downing street and UK will implement Sharia law". https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/20/jihadis-next-door-review-channel-4-isis-abu-rumaysah https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/20/jihadis... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTweBFyb01w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTweBFyb01w

hypeatei 3y ago
The UK doesn't have freedom of speech or expression. > sending another any article which is indecent or grossly offensive with an intent to cause distress or anxiety, incitement, incitement to racial hatred, incitement to religious hatred, incitement to terrorism including encouragement of terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications, glorifying terrorism, [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd...